According to this article, women wearing the niqab, the face cover, find it hard to get certain jobs, including in Muslim-majority countries. At some point, the article shifts to talking about head coverings and the restrictive policies of states like Turkey and Tunisia against such a practice in the name of secularism, creating a sense that there is a prosecution of the "veil" no matter what kind and where. Notice the title: "Women the World Over Find Veil Limits Job Choice."
There is nothing in the article about the discrimination against women who do not veil. For some women, not wearing a veil, whether a head cover or a face veil, limits not only their work opportunities, but their freedom of movement and their very safety. Just as it is not right for states and businesses to discriminate against women who choose to wear a veil, it is not right to discriminate against women who choose not to cover. It's a simple point that I made before many times on this blog. But it is worth repeating.
Interestingly, the article instantaneously appeared in Arabic.
3 comments:
I think that the type of job will determine whether its discrimination or not.
If I'm running a lingerie store, a hotel, a restaurant, a hair salon etc...
I wouldn't want to hire a muhajaba, or munaqaba.
Essentially any job where presentation and appearance matter.
Certainly presentation does matter, but if a women wears a veil to work will the decrease the number of customers who come to your store? Will it really affect business so greatly that you will not be able to give the veiled woman a job?
i think it' s discrimination no matter what type of job it is
i'm a hijabi i wear underwear too!!!
its not like the employees in vicky's secret use the underwear as a uniform or model it give me a break
and the blogger is so correct; people need to stop treating unveiled women like crap come on grow up!!!
sometimes they also won't get jobs because they don't wear hijab which i think is a lot more uncommon but still annoying
people want to project a certain image; either secular progressive woman; or pious modest women
it's all crap
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